zznate: new clusters are SSL out of the gate, however we do migrate a lot of customers which may not have encryption turned on and thus don't have it turned on post-migration. the node to node encryption transitional mode would be a big win

when i say "may not" i actually mean "every single migration we've ever done the customer isn't using encryption" as well. i have a strong feeling it's one of those "oh we didn't enable that initially and now it's too late" options for a lot of users.

so we had a user drop a column and then add it back with a different type, which totally broke their cluster. it seems to me like cassandra should stop people from doing this, or at least handle it in a way that doesn't cause everything to fall apart. what do people think?